It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

The Punctuation Collection™️

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social I'm a week behind on the blog reading, but I think you wrapped up the series on peasants without addressing the question of what happens to these families when one of the men is called for military service.

Been too long since I did a big silly ancient history 🧵so let's bring an old one back over from the Bad Place:

It's time for ::air horn:: Publius Ventidius Bassus, the coolest Roman you have never heard of and the only person to walk in a triumph first as captive, then as triumphing general. 1/

The firing of Jimmy Kimmel due to government pressure has rightly shaken those committed to free speech. Entertainers have always criticized politicians. The sign of a good politician who values free speech is to let them; only authoritarians take revenge - just ask the Romans./1

Spoken like a true White Sox fan 😅

Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

“.. Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to the Smithsonian. .. He made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.”

- Bob Dylan, on Brian Wilson #RIP

“Good Vibrations” (1966)

The biggest questions in the universe are on page 12! #particlephysics ⚛️ 🧪

Basically, America got in the white van with no windows with the nice man who offered her candy.

Took a too-short trip to El Tajín at the end of a too-short visit to #Mexico, and figured I'd write a bit about one of my favorite buildings in #Mesoamerica, the Pyramid of the Niches. 🏺🗃️🇲🇽 1/10